1913*
It is our sad duty to report the deaths of two 1913 men within one week in July Paul Stanley Harmon died in Portland,. Me. on July 31st after a brief illness and Donald Bean Gilchrist died very suddenly in Meredith, N. H. on August 4th. Fuller reports will be found in Necrology. These two members of the class will be missed tremendously by their host of friends and by the class and college particularly.
Commencement in June was the 26th Reunion of the class attended by Cunningham, Nelson, Wilkins, Towler, Macdonaid, George Knight, Shepard, Brig Knight,. Jewett, Donahue, Conant, Page, French, Stoughton—Stub and the whole family, Merrill—Tubby and the whole family, Atwood— Hap and the whole family, Trowbridge, English and all- the family and then Crust Buck for 1914's 25th Don Cunningham left for salmon fishing in New Brunswick after the Alumni Council meeting before flying back to Denver.
Jack Macdonald was reelected president of the Thayer Society of Engineers.
After nineteen years in Albany, N. Y. with Swift & Co., Bill Mason has now been transferred to Syracuse and can be found out-of-office-hours at 629 Cumberland Ave. His work is the same but the territory greatly enlarged so the new office was more centrally located.
Vic Dunbar's son Donald graduated last January from the New Dorp High School of Staten Island with a fine record and he had received more honors than any other graduate. He was third in scholastic standing, received English Department award, also the Alliance Francaise Medal, granted third prize in a city wide Chamber of Commerce Essay Contest, the Burough prize in the nationwide League of Nations contest, was given a service pin for participation in school activities, and was also awarded the most coveted prize in the New York City High Schools; the Cooperation in Government Medal. His popularity among the students was attested to by his election as boy leader of the Arista, the honorary school society. Donald was on the tutoring board at the High School and really enjoys teaching. Now he is trying to get a job for the Summer to put towards his college. He is going to work a year and enter Dartmouth in September, 1940.
Earle and Phyllis Barber were in town for a day last July and the secretary enjoyed reminiscing over grand lobster salads that hot noon. Earle was East for Boynton & Cos. of Chicago for whom he is Sales Manager. The family are living at Ridgeview Hotel, Evanston, Ill. and after a hard winter and spring are both looking in the pink of condition.
Major "Bish" Talbot is in the U. S. Marine Hospital at Ellis Island, New York with a dislocated spine. He was injured while on a road construction job at the World's Fair.
John Joseph Scarry's bookstore business has increased nicely and he now has four thriving locations, West Roxbury (the parent one) Newton, Needham and Framingham. He has also made his home in Framingham.
Dana Waterman's eldest son Larned graduated from The Hill School at Pottstown, Pennsylvania last June and enters Dartmouth this fall. In two more years, his second son, Charles Dana Waterman Jr., will graduate from the Hill School and will then enter Dartmouth.
The marriage of Miss Ruth Jeanette Adams, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. David E. Adams of South Hadley, Mass., to Landon Gale Rockwell of Princeton, N. J., took place on August 5th in the Abbey Memorial Chapel of Mount Holyoke College. The ceremony was performed by the father of Miss Adams, who is chairman of the department of theology at the college. A reception followed in Student Alumnae Hall. Mr. Rockwell, who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse D. Rockwell of Greenwich, Conn., had his brother Reynolds G. Rock well of Darien, Conn, for best man. Miss Adams was graduated from Mount Holyoke College with the class of 1939.
Carl S. Shum way as usual hopped down to New Jersey in June to Lakehurst for 2 weeks flying duty with the Navy. This year he said he took in World's Fair first.
Mose Ewing is professor of music at 7 Linden St., Brookline, Mass. Those in and near Boston now have an opportunity to have the advantage of his long years of teaching, playing and composing.
Albert S. and Jessie Kilbourn are happy at Eagle Grove, lowa with their four daughters. Alberta is a junior in the local high school and according to the church association camp paper is "cuter than heck."
Lawrence Nickerson is selling bonds and securities and lives at 452 Park Drive, Boston.
Skeet Kingsbury and Johnny Remsen were the only two of the class to attend the Dartmouth afternoon and evening at the N. Y. World's Fair. At 5:30 the college flag was raised in the Court of Sports and a dinner at the Swiss Pavilion followed with a sight seeing tour, etc In a battle of miniature perispheres the Long Island team of the Cotteralls and Remsen vanquished the Staten Island Croquet team consisting of the Nutt family. A return match is to be played.
Dave Morey "after a tough battle is completely well" and his spring football practice at Bates was strenuous to get ready to open the fall season with Harvard. He writes "It has been my misfortune (although always delightful to go back to that lovely spot in the Hanover hills) the last three years to have to face some of the strongest Dartmouth teams in the Big Green's history."
Tubby and Marjorie Merrill, according to Tubby made history on July 25th when they climbed Moosilauke in all the heat. "Hank" who graduated in June, is on the Mountain in charge of trails this summer and goes to M. I. T. this fall.
Ted Davis had a story in the July 29th Collier's—"Summer Frost" by Aaron Davis.
From "The Teller's Window" in the New York Sun of August 16th we learn:
Nathan C. Lenfestey, who is cashier of the National City Bank, believes that economics is important but that reading is fundamental to young men who would get on in the world. "The young fellow who reads a lot—reads good things—is going to get somewhere," he said in a recent talk to a group of medal winning students of the City Bank Institute in the bank's boardroom. "You'll notice that the successes around you are men who have a curious turn of mind, usually developed by reading Gradually as you gain years you will learn how little you know No one man can know everything, but he can, by study and by good reading, keep abreast of things." Mr. Lenfestey recalled Mark Twain's remark that "When I was a boy of 14, I would think how dumb my father is, but by the time I was 21 I was amazed how much my father had learned in seven years."
Time, August si, 1939 under "The Congress" carried a picture and write up of "Massachusetts' Healey." To help Mr. Smith dig into NLRB, Speaker Bankhead appointed Arthur Healey, a 100% New Dealer and 3 other congressmen.
Secretary-Chairman, Box 2057, Boston, Mass.
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